Modernity and the pleasures of automobility in middle-class poetry of the American West, 1910–1935.
During the early twentieth century, the automobile was perhaps the most visible and symbolically freighted of the machines and technologies of modernity that so transformed the experience of time and space. While visual arts, fiction and film of the period were fascinated with the automobile, the po...
| Publicado en: | Studies in Travel Writing Vol. 17; no. 2; pp. 160 - 174 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jun2013
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